Bloodroot has been blooming for 2 weeks. This is one of the spring ephemerals--so-called because the flower and even the leaves last just a short time. Usually bloodroot flowers for about 5 days. The leaves disappear by July, as the root goes dormant. Then we forget about them altogether until these wild-flowers spring up next April.
We too are ephemeral. When we are 20, we see life stretching out a long way in front of us. By the time we're 50, we can see the finish line, and when we're 80, we wonder where it all went so fast. Our friends, and maybe we, ourselves, sometimes fade too soon. My 53-year-old friend, Waew, has cancer for the third time.
Life is short.
What's most important to you?
Focus on that now.
Today.
This moment of beauty is the only one we have.
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